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The Art of swimming
Winner of the Best Dublin Fringe Award 2007
Playgroup DATES LOCATION TICKETS RESERVATIONS INFORMATION Inspired by her life, this solo performance thus contains two stories, not just that of Gleitze, whose success propelled her to stardom and further extraordinary swimming feats before she gradually faded from public view, but that of Radley's obsession with her. Language, sounds and actions often echo each other, too – a breath of air becomes the sound of a wave; sometimes words spoken by Radley are mirrored in a tiny movement or gesture. In essence this is about the loneliness of the long distance swimmer. Radley conveys the sometimes desperate solitude of swimming and the way one's sense of self is subsumed within both the seemingly infinite currents and depths of water and the abject physical exertion. Yet it's also more profound than that. Radley readily acknowledges the role the imagination plays in reconstructing Gleitze's story, yet in doing so she also somehow makes the undertaking feel more real. It's a wonderfully honest and humane piece of work. PRESS QUOTES "A beautifully written and performed piece about a modest, strong-willed woman produces an hour of quiet, gentle delight. It was my first show this year but I know already that it will prove to be one of the gems of the fringe." - "Radley beautifully uses the miniature to convey the epic"
- "It’s both a thoughtful and inventively staged portrait…………, and a reflexive look at making theatre." |
